ABSTRACT
Employability research has begun to acknowledge the need to explore modes of employability enhancement beyond human capital. This includes the idea of finding and maintaining meaningful work to develop and utilize social and cultural capital. Nevertheless, even when various capitals are acquired and developed at a sufficient level, it appears that graduates’ ability to draw on appropriate capitals in a specific context would further enhance employment prospects and career success. Through guided reflection on the authors’ own diverse career development stories, this chapter elaborates how career identity, social, cultural, and psychological capital is expanded in different contexts. It also reveals the importance of particular capitals at different career stages and the interlinking between different forms of capital, also known as participatory capital, as a means of enhancing graduate employability. This emphasizes the significance of being able to draw on different capitals in building employability and career across contexts.
